Saw one of those memes going around - “Post the first line/paragraph of your last 20 fics.” I never post in the order that I write - my organization is mayhem - but I have this folder of finished fics that are just waiting for a final read-thru and some header info and I happen to have 20 fics in there, so that’s where I’m pulling these lines from ( Read more... )

For Thanksgiving this year, we are just going to my dad’s for dinner. My brother called executive decision on it, because they have both my mom and dad to deal with, plus his in-laws and his wife’s work schedule - (she works at Wendys and is a manger, but not the head-manager, which makes her days off not very flexible). So he declared that this ( Read more... )

I kept meaning to get this all written up, just some numbers on my word counts for 2013. I actually kept track throughout the year because the previous year, when I added it all up, I realized I was just 750 words short from hitting 100k and there was no way I was going to let that happen again. Especially this time when I added it up at the 6- ( Read more... )

Just getting this in under the cut! Last month's word count. Last month I worked on a few things; more of my Leverage Apartment AU - (which is shaping up to be a lot longer and way more involved than my original idea was when I started writing it!) - my Johanna/Annie Hunger Games fic - (whoo, it's finally finished, after months of letting it sit ( Read more... )

Not going to get to fic recs tonight, nor do I have time now to watch the rest of the Tigers game I Tivoed earlier - because I had important traditional Easter things to do tonight ( Read more... )

This will be a depressing post. Next time I will give you crack. Promise.

( Mostly, I complain. )

This weekend we did a rewatch of the extended editions of Lord of the Rings, one movie every night, so we literally just turned off the TV from watching Return of the King. I thought I would have so many thoughts for you all, but nothing inside me is coherent right now. I am afraid you will never get anything coherent and full from me when it ( Read more... )

Despite the icon, this is not about the TV show "Friends" - though I love that show and oddly it is on my TV right now! (I needed a break from the background noise of Criminal Minds).

No, this is a story about how I found a friend, and then found her again.

A few weeks ago was menel's birthday and I thought I would share the story of how we met.

( The internet really does bring people together, again and again. )